Give audiobooks, support local bookstores! Start gifting

The Eyes Are the Best Part by Monika Kim

Send as gift Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

The Eyes Are the Best Part

by Monika Kim

Narrator Jaine Ye

This audiobook uses AI narration.

We’re taking steps to make sure AI narration is transparent.

Learn more

Length 9 hours 15 minutes

Language English

Send as gift Add to Wish List

Almost ready!

In order to save audiobooks to your Wish List you must be signed in to your account.

Bookseller recommendation

“In this anxiety-inducing look at a young Korean-American's nosedive, the reader is treated to squirming social interactions, cathartic acts of racial justice, and deeply authentic family dynamics, with streams of gore flowing throughout. Choked full of commentary centered around Asian-American discrimination, this novel, and Ji-won specifically, sort of bite back (pun intended) against dehumanizing fetishization. Perfect for those who enjoy a purgative feminist horror filled with blood, rage, and acute slips into madness. ”
— Lambie • Underground Books

Bookseller recommendation

“If you've ever wondered what it would feel and taste like to eat an eyeball, read this book and you will wonder no more. Ji-Won is tired of being fetishized for being Korean. She’s tired of gross men taking advantage of her, of her mother, of women in general. She’s angry at her father for abandoning his family. She’s worried for her younger sister. She’s wary of her new friend, Geoffrey, and she’s suspicious of her mother’s new boyfriend, George. She’s also recently developed a taste and a hunger for eyeballs. Specifically blue eyes. This book is dark and badass and cathartic and personally I’m a fan of the way Ji-Won handles the racist, misogynistic men around her. ”
— Ryan • Gibson's Bookstore

#43 in Bestselling Horror Audiobooks

Summary

Crying in H-Mart meets My Sister, the Serial Killer in this feminist psychological horror about the making of afemale serial killer from a Korean-American perspective.Ji-won’s life tumbles into disarray in the wake of her Appa’s extramarital affair and subsequent departure. Hermother, distraught. Her younger sister, hurt and confused. Her college freshman grades, failing. Her dreams,horrifying… yet enticing.In them, Ji-won walks through bloody rooms full of eyes. Succulent blue eyes. Salivatingly blue eyes. Eyes thesame shape and shade as George’s, who is Umma’s obnoxious new boyfriend. George has already overstayedhis welcome in her family’s claustrophobic apartment. He brags about his puffed-up consulting job, ogles Asianwaitresses while dining out, and acts condescending toward Ji-won and her sister as if he deserves all ofUmma’s fawning adoration. No, George doesn’t deserve anything from her family. Ji-won will make sure of that.For no matter how many victims accumulate around her campus or how many people she must deceive andmanipulate, Ji-won’s hunger and her rage deserve to be sated.A brilliantly inventive, subversive novel about a young woman unraveling, Monika Kim’s The Eyes Are the BestPart is a story of a family falling apart and trying to find their way back to each other, marking a bold new voicein horror that will leave readers mesmerized and craving more.

Fiction Horror